The Explosive Truth: "Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them. I don't give a f#*k how crazy they are!" Indeed they don't, Seth. Indeed they don't. And you should know, having found yourself trapped in a strip bar/ancient Aztec pyramid along with a horde of bloodthirsty vampires (not psychos) for what was no doubt the longest night of your life. Of course, nothing proves handier in such a situation than an old-fashioned disco ball and some good old sunlight, which can be reflected on said globe, hence eliminating your vamp problem one, two, three in a brilliant burst of desiccated vamp remains. Unfortunately, that doesn't include Juliette Lewis' desiccated remains.

Blown to Bits in…Lost: "Exodus: Part 2" Means of Destruction: Dynamite Killed by: Annoying overconfidence The Explosive Truth: High school science teacher Leslie Arzt wanted to get in on the action with Jack, Kate, Locke, and the gang for a change, rather than continue sitting on the beach stuck in extra land as he had been throughout Lost's first season. And he did get his big chance when it came time to transport some highly volatile dynamite across the island -- explosives that the ninth-grade teacher went to great pains to explain to his comrades were terribly dangerous… right before he ceased to exist while holding a stick of the stuff. Hey, Arzt, next time, stay on the beach!

The Explosive Truth: While the bulk of our favorite exploding characters on this list are human beings, or at least something approaching human, we just had to make a couple of non-Homo Sapiens exceptions. Take the Death Star, for example, or rather, both Death Stars; veritable characters unto themselves that might have been inanimate objects but nonetheless carried with them a persona of fear and loathing throughout the Star Wars galaxy that was trumped only, perhaps, by the perception that they were both somehow doomed to deaths in the cradle at the hands of a farm boy and a semi-reformed conman. That these homicidal maniacs murdered not just the Death Stars themselves but also hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of soldiers and Imperial personnel is unspeakably heinous. Oh, the horror… the horror…